Language Quote by James Gleick

“Words, so much more readily remembered, gradually replace our past with their own. Our birth pangs become pages. Our battles, our triumphs, our trophies,…

— William H. Gass

We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then puts it…

— John Granger

“But the remarkable thing about the beetles was their sensitivity to all the grammar and directives and slogans and even unstated desires of the…

— William T. Vollmann

If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“This is how we make sense of the world, by trapping it in words and sentences, by pinning it like a butterfly to a…

— Naomi Alderman

“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory…

— Rick Yancey

“Oh, but clever words On pages turn to fragments, circles, points and lines And they cover them like carpets With graceful, meaningless, ornamental designs”

— Aaron Weiss

“We are but a tattered remnant, a small and bastard race who linger on the shoulders of that giant race, a memory that is…

— Ned Hayes

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

— E. O. Wilson

“Life is like a box of chocolates: unopened, dusty, and beginning to attract a lot of insects. WELCOME”

— Joseph Fink

“We are caught in a secret history, in a forest of symbols.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson